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Eagle 6.1.0 Unattended Install

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I maintain the installs on our University owned machines.  I need to deploy this software to around 50 machines, and will periodically need to update this to newer versions.  I have the license and the installer already, but I'm running into issues automating the install process.

 

I noticed that your self extracting exe unzips and then runs "bin/eagle.exe --setup", which is fine, but I'm not able to figure out how to pass any of the inputs for scripted installs.  It appears that all the --setup command does, is take a couple of inputs, and then copies itself into the target location, and create two files: eagle.key, and uninstall.lst.

 

I have a feeling that I could install it onto one computer, and then copy the install onto other computers, while adding the 4 Registry keys, and the 5 start menu shortcuts, but I'd rather do it through officially supported means.

 

Is there any method provided by CadSoft for unattended/silent installs?

 

Thanks,
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  • in reply to Former Member

    On 3/13/2012 4:44 AM, Marco Trapanese wrote:

    Just to understand, no polemics at all.

    Why sell v6 with all that bugs? I can't believe they didn't know before!

    You might discover most of them after few minutes of normal use.

     

    IMHO the goal should be release EAGLE versions when they have the

    robustness they're known for, rather than "to get them back to".

     

    Of course there will always be some bugs, in any applications. But it

    would be better if Cadsoft had released the v6.1.3 at first, after some

    tests.

     

    We're talking about a professional application, not a flash game image

    So, the question is: why?

     

    Marco

     

     

    Hi Marco,

     

    I agree with you and thank you for your courtesy. We did our best with

    the initial release, I don't think any one would release faulty software

    intentionally.

     

    I don't want to make excuses, there were many factors involved and as it

    turns out V6.0.0 was not as ready as we would have liked. It is what it

    is and we're working on fixing it.

     

    The goal is always for a new release to be as robust as possible, but

    that didn't happen so now we have to get it back to were it needs to be.

     

    Jorge Garcia

    Cadsoft Support

     

  • in reply to Former Member

    Il 13/03/2012 20:57, Jorge Garcia ha scritto:

     

    I agree with you and thank you for your courtesy. We did our best with

    the initial release, I don't think any one would release faulty software

    intentionally.

     

    I don't want to make excuses, there were many factors involved and as it

    turns out V6.0.0 was not as ready as we would have liked. It is what it

    is and we're working on fixing it.

     

    The goal is always for a new release to be as robust as possible, but

    that didn't happen so now we have to get it back to were it needs to be.

     

     

    Thanks for your kind answer.

    Marco